Shipyards

Shipyards are mammoth orbital installations capable of manufacturing and launching advanced spacecraft in a matter of weeks, as opposed to the years a project would take in conventional drydocks on a planet's surface. They were constructed in a method similar to the average space station - a Hub block would be launched into Space via either chemical rockets from a planet or a spacecraft dropping one off, which enabled construction workers and drones, should they be available, to gradually add on to the block with different modules to create a fully functioning station. The Shipyard block was popularly considered one of these modules.